Upcoming Seminars

Feb. 28th, 3:30 PM

Learning Attribute Hierarchies from Data: Exploratory Approaches

Seminar presented by Chun Wang
In cognitive diagnostic assessment in education, multiple fine-grained attributes are measured simultaneously. Attribute hierarchies are considered important structural features of cognitive diagnostic models (CDM) that provide useful information about…
JHN 175
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Faculty Searches

Applications are invited for a Full-Time Tenure-Track Assistant Professor position in the Department of Statistics at the University of Washington. Applicants must have a Ph.D. in statistics, biostatistics, or a related field by the start of the appointment. We seek applications from candidates with a research record in statistical methodology and/or applications of statistics in the Physical Sciences, Biomedical Sciences, Engineering and/or Social Sciences.
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Senior Lecturer

Applications are invited for a Senior Lecturer Full-Time position in the Department of Statistics at the University of Washington. This appointment is for a full time position with a 9-month service period (September 16 - June 15) and an anticipated start date of September 2020.
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Technical Reports

Accounting for Smoking in Forecasting Mortality and Life Expectancy

Smoking is one of the main risk factors that has affected human mortality and life expectancy over the past century. Smoking accounts for a large part of the nonlinearities in the growth of life…

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On the Feasibility of Parsimonious Variable Selection for Hotelling’s T^2-test

Hotelling’s T2 - test for the mean of a multivariate normal distribution is one of the triumphs of classical multivariate analysis. It is uniformly most powerful among invariant tests,…

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Probabilistic Forecasting of the Arctic Sea Ice Edge with Contour Modeling

Sea ice, or frozen ocean water, annually freezes and melts in the Arctic. The need for accu- rate forecasts of where sea ice will be located weeks to months in advance has increased as the amount…

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Recent News

Thompson makes an appearance on AMSTAT News Magazine

Elizabeth Thompson, Professor Emerita in the Department of Statistics at the University of Washington, makes an…

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Undergraduate Newsletter for Winter 2020

We are delighted to announce the Winter Edition of our undergraduate newsletter, "Student's T time”, edited by Professor Ranjini Grove, with help from the UW Statistics & Probability…

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Amanda Cox will give a talk for the Public Lecture Series

The UW Graduate School will be hosting Amanda Cox for the Public Lecture Series to give a talk on Visualizing Doubt. In…

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